"Better to Be Safe Than Sorry"
Daily life today seems to consist of a multitude of privacy trade-offs. You want to order a pizza to your house after a long day at work? You need to give them your address, full name, and personal phone number. You want a private car to pick you up so you don’t have to roam the streets alone late at night searching for a cab? You need to give your address, full name, and personal phone number. You need to get to the airport to catch a red-eye flight? You need to give your address, full name, and private phone number. It is a difficult catch-22 situation: do you continue to live life as normal and trust the technology you use to safeguard your privacy, or do you play it safe and abandon the convenience of these applications? There’s no simple answer.
It seems that lately the definition of privacy has become unclear. What had previously been understood as ‘minding your own business’ has now morphed into a belief of ‘what’s yours is mine’. Privacy is a fundamental human right and technology should not be the reason that it is compromised.